It’s time to hit you with some stats again. In 2016, online sales globally Represented 7.4% of total Retail spending. By 2018 this is expected to be 8.8%. In the UK - the country with the highest retail E-commerce sales - the online retail business has been showing a double-digit growth rate for the past 8 years. On the British island, E-commerce sales represented 133 billion pounds last year, an increase of almost 16% compared to 2015.